Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century

FoxNews ^ | November 20, 2010 | Loren Grush

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[ForGod'sSake]

Great thread! Haven’t chuckled this much in a while.

[Fred Nerks]

From left, Joe Enzer of the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District and Kent Olson and Jesse Steele of Gould Construction hold two of the large tusks unearthed Wednesday from the Ziegler Reservoir excavation project near Snowmass Village. (Photo from Gould Construction Inc.)

[ForGod'sSake]

Well, after reading the whole article then running off to track down several other articles re this find, no one has asked the obvious question yet about how this much sediment, silt and clay washed into this little bowl in the ground fast enough to cover these critters. A glacial lake maybe broke through an ice dam sending a deluge along with the critters into the bowl? Just seems odd that “grazers” would be tooling around at 9,000 feet. But whadda I know???

[worst-case scenario]

What a phenomenal story! Thank you so much!

With the right sort of development and guidance by the University and the State out there, this could turn into an educational goldmine for the State. Imagine the tourists that will fly out there with their kids to show them the mastodon and other Pleistocene relics in situ - all of them together in the same site.

What an amazing find.

[21twelve]

I know why they are smiling. Job security. Their one-year project just turned into a six-year endeavour. (Unless of course the owners just decide to stop the project, and spend the next 10 years trying to find and permit another site.

[blam]

"I'm half browser on my mother's side..."

Well, I was going to claim some kinship myself until I noticed it said grazers, we're from the gazer side of the family. So....

[gleeaikin]

A lot can accumulate in 25,000 years. Read the full article.

[Ezekiel]

Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century

Petrified pancakes?

[ApplegateRanch]

the Mosaic Era.

Wasn't that the middle era of the DOS Period?

[ApplegateRanch]

Petrified pancakes?

Rachel Correy's GGG...GGGrandmother?

[Ezekiel]

Rachel Correy's GGG...GGGrandmother?

She must have been an ihoposaurus. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

Wow!

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FN!

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, back at the time of the Ten Command-Line.

[SunkenCiv]

Just looking around my house, I’d hate to think what it’ll be like in 25K years...

[Interesting Times]

Wasn't that the middle era of the DOS Period?

The final era, if memory serves.

[Squidpup]

location is the water body on left, I believe.